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72 Tenn. 229

State v. Ellison

Tennessee Supreme Court

Decided April 15, 1880

Tennessee Supreme Court · decided 1880-04-15

<p>Criminal Law. Former acquittal. An acquittal of the charge of stealing a hog is not a bar to a subsequent indictment for wantonly and willfully killing the hog.</p>

Decided 1880-04-15

Freeman J.,

¶1delivered the opinion of the Court.

¶2Defendant was indicted for wantonly and wil-fully killing a hog. He had been previously in-dieted for the larceny of the same hog, but had. been acquitted. He pleads this fact as once in jeopardy, in bar of the present indictment, and his plea was held good by the Judge below.

¶3In this there was error. The ■ offense of maliciously or wantonly killing the stock of another in no wise involves the idea of stealing a hog, nor does the stealing a hog involve, as a necessary part of the ofíense, the act of wantonly killing it. A man may well steal a hog alive and not kill it at all.

¶4*230The principle of the case of Fiddler v. State, 7 Hum., 508, that whatever is a .necessary ingredient in the offense for which the party was tried, but must be considered as having been passed on in the former trial, is a correct one, but has no application to. the facts of this case.

¶5Reverse the judgment, and remand the case for further proceedings.

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